And those afraid of such hanging horrors may well have a sleepless night after seeing this photograph. But have no fear, because all is not what it seems.
While the picture, taken in the Philippines, appears to show a ‘human-size’ horror hanging upside down from a roof, it is actually a clever camera trick.
The photograph shows a giant golden-crowned flying fox, a large fruit-eating bat native to the Asian archipelago.
Although the flying mammals can have wing-span of up to 5ft5in, slightly above the average height of women in the UK, the bats only grow to a height of around a foot.
While the giant golden-crowned flying fox is significantly bigger than the average UK bat, which has a wingspan shorter than that of sparrow, it is certainly not ‘human-sized’ in terms of height.
However with some clever forced perspective photography, the kind that allows people to ‘hold-up’ buildings such as the Leaning Tower of Pisa, the bats can look much bigger than they really are – as in this example.
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